A HAND-PICKED team of 14 young Muslims who were trained to fly Boeing jets in secret at an airbase in Afghanistan are believed to be hiding in Europe and America using fake passports and identities.
Seven of the team are known to speak fluent English and left Afghanistan more than a year ago with enough flying skill to stage further suicide attacks. Security services worldwide, already overwhelmed by the hunt for “sleepers” that Osama bin Laden has in place, have been told to track down these 14 men.
They were trained by a senior pilot working for Ariana, the Afghan state-owned airline, who revealed how the Taleban administration ordered him and four other captains to teach the 14-strong group to handle large commercial jets. The captain, known only as Rasul Parvaz, said he did not know what became of his students after they were smuggled out of Afghanistan.
What has disturbed the FBI is Captain Rasul’s description of the men as polite, wellmannered and educated but who were “dedicated Muslim fanatics” who kept telling him that they believed they were part of a holy war.
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